I have been thinking about this for awhile. It started when I created a new account due to not wanting my PM emblem anymore but not having the balls to do the "fresh start" since I have nearly every primary gold.

So as I am moving my way back up from lvl1 and once again using weapons I hadnt used since I golded them I was missing my AN94 class often. I use ARs 8/10 matches and the AN is my most used gun. I finally unlocked the SCAR and set it up. Relatively speaking it is a good AR and I have a class on my PM account with it set up so I do enjoy the gun and do pretty good with it. I also had a SMR class set up (no SF) which is amazing but the whole semi-auto is a different mindset and I am not always in the mood for that. Then I hit lvl55 with my new account and set up my AN class. That is when I realized how bad ass of a gun it really is. TTK is fast especially at range, and I acually like how it recoils since it moves me generally upward. Its irons are great so primary gunfighter gets me 3 usefull attachments.

Anyway sorry for the long set up but I am curious where you avid AR users put the AN94 all time. I only started playing with bops1 so you long time vets are going to have a completely different list and probably shake your heads at mine. I am also putting guns on my list that I didnt like or use very much but that were obviously dominant, possibly even OP, guns.

#1a. Bops1 Famas. Everyone used it and everyone hated it. As good at cqc as the subs and great range. Definately tied for #1 IMO.

#1b. MW3 ACR. I tried to never use the gun since everyone else did but it outclassed every gun in MW3 throughout the lifespan of the game.

#3. Bops1 Galil. Had to be nearly tied with the Famas for usage. Great iron sites, great recoil, and very little damage change with a suppressor.

#4. AN94. Personally I put this one at the top as it just fits me but generally speaking it is not dominant like the others (3arch nailed gun balance with bops2)

#5. MW3 Ak47. Probably stretching putting this one in what is supposed to be an honest top 5 but a lot of people really liked the gun myself included so I put it in there..

I wanted to put MW3's Mk14 on here since I loved it but I was trying to be honest without using favoritism. Haa..

It's definitely the best AR in BO2, imo. And right up there with the Galil for me in terms of favorite ARs in Black ops in general. Both have great iron sights. And it's sooo nice not to have to use an accessory slot for a reflex sight.

I think it blows away the SCAR in basically every catagory, but that's my #2 AR for BO2. The rest, well, I honestly don't even bother with them anymore after unlocking the diamond camos. (the Bo2 list for me would probably go: An, Scar, Fal, M27, Swat, Mtar, and the rest I just outright can't stand)

I dunno if you've noticed this, however: I tend to run silencers and ghost quite a bit, and it seems to me that when you slap a silencer on the An now, it nerfs the dmg a LOT more than it used to. Maybe I'm just trippin'?

Fal silenced with any other attachment is the best ar in this game IMO at range its so devastating it's not even funny and up close its 3 shots at most. I'd say the an is really close but not quite as good to me.

It's hard to make a top 5 AR list, the An94 is the best AR in this game, but where it ranks all time is tough. It's hard to compare guns outside their game because the titles play differently. The BO Famas would get wrecked by any AR in a IW title head to head. Best AR in the game? Yes. Top 5 all time? Idk

Obviously your opinion is somewhat subjective but statistics like Fire rate and damage which lead to TTK at a given range can still cross over game to game. Those are hard numbers that do not change. Take a gun like the ACR. Nearly 0 recoil, good damage and good range its TTK can translate and be compared to other guns in other games. I watch almost every one of Driftor's videos and I guarantee he could effectively compare the guns from game to game and title to title just based on raw data.

It takes a certain amount of bullets to kill 3, 4, 5 and the time and ease at which you can land those shots definately translates title to title. Obviously you cannot factor in a head to head with a Famas vs. an ACR or a Galil vs a MW3 AK47.

I didn't play CoD until MW3, but the AN-94 is a beast. My favorite AR so far has to be the Type 95. I didn't have the greatest connection in MW3 (at first until I got it sorted out) so killing quickly was a necessity.

My top 5 for the last 2 CoD's would be:

1. Type 95 RDS, Rapid fire, and stalker made dealing with me a pain in ass in MW3. To kill me, I either had to miss my first birst or get shot in the back when going tryhard with this gun. Didn't matter if there were multiple people in front of me. I had so many triple and quad feeds with this gun.

2. ACR Enough said it's the ACR.

3. Fal Select Fire I haven't used it since it was nerfed twice so that might change.

4. AN-94 It's probably the communities favorite AR in BO2 and one of my go to weapons.

5. G36C An under used AR that was amazing but it had bad irons and an initial upward recoil that took a minute to get used to, but once mastered it rivaled the ACR IMHO due to the higher fire rate and better performance in CQC situations.

AN-94 is easily the best AR in Black Ops 2. I used one of my permanent unlocks on it after my 2nd prestige (the first being the KAP-40). My style of play is medium to long range so I like guns that can stay on target over long distances. This is just my opinion, but here's my all-time list:

1. ACR - Modern Warfare 2 (decent power, almost no recoil and great iron sights)

2. M16 - Modern Warfare (excellent power and decent recoil made up for the burst factor)

3. AN-94 - Black Ops 2

4. G11 - Black Ops (similar to the M16, but it also had an excellent sight by default)

Forgot about the G36. Loved that gun and your right if you could controll the recoil it could hang with the ACR. I actually liked the irons. Was like a steroided out UMP45 that sounded pissed off. haa..

5. Black Ops 1 M16 - Killed in one burst. Very Similar to the Type 95, but slightly less powerful.

The MW3 ACR is number 1, and it's miles above the rest. That gun can be hipfired for CQC and beat out most other guns in the game, and it's basically an instant-kill at any distance. Extended Mags + Silencer = death for everyone.

The Famas was the Noob-friendly weapon in Black Ops 1. I thought it was great. It was unlocked at level 14, I believe, and allowed new players to compete with better players.

The Type 95 was seriously overpowered. It was a sniper at long range and a hip-firing shotgun in close quarters. It would be number 1 if not for the nerf it received, which only reduced the damage slightly.

The AN-94 is powerful but not versatile. You'll get killed in close quarters, but from long range it will outgun any other AR in the game with ease.

The M16 is my all time favorite COD AR, and second favorite COD weapon, behind the MW3 Striker. It was unlocked early, killed in a single burst most times, and looked awesome with various camos.

You are 100% correct about the pre nerf T95. That thing was crazy OP. They should have left it alone and at least the ACR wouldnt have been the top dog. Plus being a burst it took way more skill to use then the ACR.

I also completely agree about the AN94 cqc it is not a good gun. On that note though most of the bops2 ARs are junk cqc with the exception maybe being the T25 since it is almost a hybrid AR.

I had the first gold MW3 M16 that I had seen and I remember post match guys asking me what gun it was haaa...people were so hooked on their ACRcrutch or T95 that they didnt even try the other guns much. The M16 owned the T95 at range which made it that much more fun to use.

must be a personal thing but i loved the simple iron sights on earlier ak47s and was hoping the an94 would just be the same but obviously isnt and i hate those things

used an AR nearly all the time in earlier cod's but none of the AR iron sights in blops2 work for me so tried the smg's and the msmc was nice had a lot of success with it.... then they started to nerf the gun making it still competitive but without the edge it had

loving blops2 its a great and different game faster altogether but i still miss my AK

MW1 M4 is a favorite because it was probably the first weapon I got attached to in Call of Duty. It's not the strongest or anything but it's a favorite. MW2's SCAR is one of my favorites too. The Commando in Black Ops 1 was great, as was the M16 in basically every Call of Duty but MW3, and the M27 and M8 in this game are favorites... So I guess if I had to list 5 I'd say M4, Commando, Scar, M8, and M16. But the M27 is right there, and really any of those 5 are top weapons to me.

Am I the only one who likes the scar more than the an94. The scar is the highest damage dealing auto weapon in the game. The recoil is straight up and is manageable once you get used to it. And it has rediculous range. I like the an but I put my scar over git 6 thousand kills with it

1. Acr mw3

2. Galil black ops

3. Type 95 mw3

4. Scar h bops2

5. Famas black ops

The Famas got extremely nerfed and idk if you guys have played black ops recently but the recoil in it now is absurd